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Empire Strikes Back Scribe To Tackle Robotech

Robotech, the anime series about Transformers that can take human passengers, is rumored to be getting the masterful touch of Lawrence Kasdan for its live-action movie. This infamous scribe has worked his magic on other legendary movies such as The Empire Strikes Back and Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Robotech has been in limbo for…

io9 Meredith Woerner

“The Happening” Is the Biggest Intelligent Design Movie of the Year

M. Night Shyamalan’s critically-panned flick The Happening is Hollywood’s first blockbuster to promote the anti-evolutionary theory of intelligent design. Maybe you thought Ben Stein’s ill-fated documentary Expelled was the only movie to argue in favor of the neo-Christian idea that an “intelligent designer” created the universe. Think again. With its references to “unexplained acts of…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Unfilmed Indy 4 Script Has 23 Percent More Awesomeness

What would Indiana Jones 4 have been like without Shia LaBoeuf’s cocky young character Mutt? Now you can find out for yourself, thanks to a leaked copy of Frank Darabont’s draft of the Indy 4 script that’s floating around the internet. (It should be pretty easy to find via Google — and people seem to…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Find Out The Secrets Of Shepherd Book

The long-awaited Firefly/Serenity spin-off comic focusing on the origin of Shepherd Book is coming soon at last. And the good news is creator Joss Whedon will be on-board as a co-writer of the three-issue series, according to editor Scott Allie. As we reported before, it includes how Shepherd Book found God in a bowl of…

Books & Comics Meredith Woerner

Extra Hours Of BSG And At Least One TV Movie

You may have to wait seven months to find out how robo-battle show Battlestar Galactica ends — but at least the ending will be a giant blow-out. The season finale will have two extra hours added to it, allowing for more sexy cylons, crazy Starbuck, gratuitous frakking, and inner turmoil for everyone. According to The…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Watch Vader Meet The Secret Apprentice

Vader meets his Secret Apprentice and it’s love at first sight, in the new documentary explaining the story behind Lucas Art’s new video game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Also in the quickie video, the producers and writers give you a glimpse of CGI Princess Leia and look into the hull of the Rogue Shadow…

io9 Meredith Woerner

What Happens When You Kill Your Own Grandfather As A Baby?

The moment we learn how to time travel, the first thing we’re all going to want to do is go back in time and kill our own grandparents as children. It’s like picking at a scab, you can’t resist. A big part of the temptation comes from the fact that we don’t know what’ll happen…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Award-Winning Spacesuit that NASA Will Use on the Moon

NASA has picked this new model of spacesuit, created by Oceaneering International Inc., to keep astronauts safe during the next moon mission in 2020. The suit, designed for rugged walking conditions, can be used for up to a week of Lunar travel. It will also be used for space walks outside the International Space Station.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Tears And Mutilations In New Stargate DVD Movie

The cast of space-hopping drama Stargate SG-1 is back at last in Stargate: Continuum, a new direct-to-DVD movie — just in time to have all sorts of horrible things happen to them. With time travel and alternate universes, anything goes. Including hacking off the limbs of beloved heroes or killing off the cast entirely. Yet…

io9 Meredith Woerner

A Fleet of Atomic-Electric Space Ships Embark For Mars, 1957

Earlier this week we showed you the wonderful “cosmic soap opera” from Disney’s “Mars and Beyond” television show from 1957. This much more serious clip shows what a future expedition to Mars might look like. The spaceships (conceptualized by Ernst Stuhlinger and Werner von Braun) were 500 feet in diameter and powered by electricity generated…

io9 Lynn Peril

Josie and the Pussycats Meet Mad Max

When you’re trapped in a post-nuclear dystopia, what else is there to do but rock? That’s the one-line premise behind Ray Fawkes and Cameron Stewart’s The Apocalypstix, a new graphic novel series coming your way from Oni Press, home of Scott Pilgrim, later this year. Updating Josie and The Pussycats’ girl-band template for our brave…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Bruce Jensen’s Sekrit Cool

Welcome back to The Jewels of Apator, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s column about the intersection of art and the fantastic. Bruce Jensen is an artist whose work you’ve probably seen more times than you can remember. Over seven seasons, his art montages formed the backdrop to hundreds of segments on the CBS show 60 Minutes…

io9 Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

Casting Leonardo Dicaprio As Captain America Would Be Titanically Wrong

Rumor is out that Marvel wants to cast Leonardo Dicaprio as Captain America, because he was so hard core in Gangs of New York or something. Captain America is a master of hand to hand combat, a rough and tumble soldier and the perfect human being. While Leonardo DiCaprio is a fantastic actor, you’re not…

io9 Meredith Woerner

First Look At Bruce Willis’ Robo-Wig

Is that Bruce Willis or his robot replacement on the set of the futuristic science fiction flick The Surrogates ? It should be impossible to tell according to the original graphic novel. In The Surrogates’ future, all humans have robot replacements that they send out to do their bidding, while the real people stay at home.…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Sarah Connor Has Failed — the British Just Built Skynet

With the launch of a new communications satellite, the British military has completed a highly advanced network that will allow robotic military units to be controlled at long range. Sound vaguely familiar? They actually named the thing Skynet. When the T-1000s come knocking, keep an eye out for the “Made in UK” sticker. Skynet 5…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Marvel’s God Chases The Knowledge Dragon One More Time

A alien being of unimaginable, God-like, power coming to Earth to sample the human experience by becoming a pimp, getting a bubble perm and being taught how to urinate by Spider-Man. It can only be Secret Wars II, Marvel’s first, much-derided, line-wide crossover from the mid-80s now, stunningly, coming soon to a bookstore near you.…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Repairing the Ozone Hole Speeds Global Warming

A vast hole in Earth’s ozone layer yawns open every summer over Antarctica. Since atmospheric ozone shields us from a lot of ultraviolet radiation, losing it means a lot more mutations. But as bad as that sounds, repairing the hole could mean destroying the planet. Now scientists from Columbia University have discovered that the ozone…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Only Flash Gordon Can Save Us In Iraq

He may have saved everyone of us and stand for every one of us, but can Flash Gordon survive a new incarnation that attempts to make his adventures on the unfortunately-named planet of Mongo into a political allegory for the Iraq war? That’s just one of the aims of the new Flash Gordon comic book,…

io9 Graeme McMillan

New Official Doctor Who FAQ Includes Shocking Revelations

We’ve got the first clip of Arcee, the pink motorcycle Transformer, and all you have to do to watch it is listen to someone sing the praises of Transformers 2 director Michael Bay. Also, there are new hints about the Incredible Hulk sequel (already) and Wanted. And a couple of new Dragonball pics. A new…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

A Battle To The Death, In A Totalitarian New-Wave Nightmare

Of all the neon-dystopia music videos that came out after Blade Runner, my favorite is probably 1983’s “Magnetic” by Earth Wind & Fire. It’s the year 2051, and despite the “Plenty Through Technology” posters everywhere, people live in a neon-tinged squalor, with only giant nightclubs and dancing street vendors to keep them pacified. Raver-cops keep…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Empire Strikes Back Scribe To Tackle Robotech

“The Happening” Is the Biggest Intelligent Design Movie of the Year

Unfilmed Indy 4 Script Has 23 Percent More Awesomeness

Find Out The Secrets Of Shepherd Book

Extra Hours Of BSG And At Least One TV Movie

Watch Vader Meet The Secret Apprentice

What Happens When You Kill Your Own Grandfather As A Baby?

The Award-Winning Spacesuit that NASA Will Use on the Moon

Tears And Mutilations In New Stargate DVD Movie

A Fleet of Atomic-Electric Space Ships Embark For Mars, 1957

Josie and the Pussycats Meet Mad Max

Bruce Jensen’s Sekrit Cool

Casting Leonardo Dicaprio As Captain America Would Be Titanically Wrong

First Look At Bruce Willis’ Robo-Wig

Sarah Connor Has Failed — the British Just Built Skynet

Marvel’s God Chases The Knowledge Dragon One More Time

Repairing the Ozone Hole Speeds Global Warming

Only Flash Gordon Can Save Us In Iraq

New Official Doctor Who FAQ Includes Shocking Revelations

A Battle To The Death, In A Totalitarian New-Wave Nightmare

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

The Best New Toys of March 2026

Judge Denies Liking LinkedIn Post Critical of Elon Musk But Reassigns His Cases Anyway

Amazon Slashes 50% Off Keurig K-Cup Pod Coffee Maker, Now a Budget Alternative to Breville and Nespresso Espresso Machines

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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